Monthly Archives: March 2015

Copy, the cloud storage solution from Barracuda, just received what the developers call a “massive” update. The key feature is one that might not be immediately obvious: a totally rewritten sync engine, which promises to bring faster load times and more overall smoothness. If you update Copy and feel like everything is just working better, you can probably thank the new sync engine.

The other major addition is native PDF support, which gives it feature parity with competitors like Dropbox and Google Drive.

This weekend’s poll is a flagship battle bonanza: with both the Galaxy S6 and HTC One M9 set to launch in many countries in a mere matter of days, we want to know which one you’ll be buying. I know, most of you will be purchasing neither, but we want to hear from those that are, too, to see how the chips land here at Android Police.

The Galaxy S6 is the most appealing phone from the Korean smartphone king in as many years as they’ve been making them, if you ask me, while HTC’S latest effort seems like a bit of a rehash.

It’s been known since launch that Verizon wouldn’t give you a SIM card for a Nexus 6 unless you tricked its system. With that said, the assumption always seemed to be that Big Red would at least add IMEI numbers for phones purchased from Google Play once it launched the phone in official capacity. This assumption had historical precedent to back it up, as Verizon did exactly that when it launched the Nexus 7 LTE six months after everyone else.

This isn’t your typical Kickstarter. Jeremy Chau, one of the company’s co-founders, states it clearly from the get-go in the campaign’s introductory video. Remix isn’t a bunch of over-promised under-delivered hogwash that may get stuck for years in the development and manufacturing process like 90% of Kickstarter products — it is a real tablet, it was demo’ed at CES, and it’s already being sold in China.

The Team Win Recovery Project’s custom recovery, affectionately known as TWRP, has received an update today. The latest version of the software is now 2.8.6.0, and it comes with a number of changes. There’s some keyboard improvements here, some scroll bar adjustments there—that sort of thing.

Here’s the full list.

Fix daylight savings time rules for USA and Europe (_that)

Allow mulitple overlays for popup boxes (Dees_Troy)

Add pattern style password entry for decrypt (Tassadar)

Keyboard improvements (_that)

Update AOSP base to 5.1 (Dees_Troy)

Reduce theme count to 5 and rely on scaling (Dees_Troy)

Various scaling improvements (Dees_Troy)

Improved handling of resources in the GUI (_that)

Make scroll bar size proportional to list size (_that)

Allow scoll lists to render without a header (_that)

Make console scroll per pixel with kinetic scrolling (_that)

Support styles in XML to reduce XML size and improve consistentcy (Dees_Troy)

Various other fixes and improvements (mdmower, bigbiff, codelover, etc)

Of our many jobs here at Android Police, one is to make our readers’ lives easier when we can. With that in mind, here’s a roundup of every known Android 5.1 OTA for every Nexus device that will be receiving it. As new ones become available, this post will be updated accordingly. Android 5.1 will be released to Nexus 4, 5, 6, 7 (2012 and 2013), 9, and 10. As I’m sure you’ve guessed, there will be plenty of files to be had.

Motorola has done great things for mid-range Android phones with the first and second generation Moto G. The pricing of these unlocked phones is usually very good, but it’s even better today if you fancy the first gen Moto G with LTE. That device is $ 40 off today only, making it just $ 159.99.

The first gen Moto G is a little smaller than the new one with a 4.5-inch 720p LCD, 8GB of storage with a microSD card slot, a Snapdragon 400 CPU, and 1GB of RAM.

Netflix has said it wants to expand its service to as much of the world as possible, and now the time has come for residents Down Under to fire up the streaming service. According to AusDroid, Netflix is now available in Australia,with streaming plans ranging from A$ 8.99 to A$ 14.99.

A few days ago, we noticed a new sight in Inbox by Gmail – another FAB. The new floating action button is blue, and exists only to create reminders. Since then, we’ve received numerous reports of the FAB popping up for more users. Personally, only one of my two accounts has the new FAB, suggesting that this might be a slow rollout or even an A/B test for the new feature.